The repetitive component of the sunflower genome as shown by different procedures for assembling next generation sequencing reads

Table 5 Percentage distribution of different functional classes of non-coding DNA sequences in the sunflower genome, based on the mapping of the WGSAS

Sequence type		Whole genome sequence set
		Number of matched reads	Percentage
DNA transposons	Unclassified	521,152	0.68
	Subclass I	445,239	0.58
	Subclass II	348,166	0.46
	MITE	641,043	0.84
	Total	1,955,600	2.56
Retrotransposons	Unclassified	347,042	0.45
	LTR-Copia	14,693,697	19.22
	LTR-Gypsy	37,625,059	49.22
	LTR-Unknown	7,569,830	9.90
	Non-LTR	541,494	0.71
	Pararetrovirus	20,624	0.03
	Total	60,797,746	79.53
Tandem repeats		457,613	0.60
rDNA		266,528	0.35
Unknown repeats	Unclassified	3,888,190	5.09
	Contig 61 type [18]	2,148,599	2.81
	Total	6,036,789	7.90
Total matched reads excluding organellar ones		76,447,216

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